Who hasn’t heard laments from older people that things were so much better in the day? Well, these aren’t just wistful memories and selective views, there’s much validity to these sentiments. Sadly, the present generation will not understand this because they don’t know what they never experienced. Without regard to such ephemeral things as fashion and fads, the most significant difference from then to now is the amount of interference that governments have in our lives.
We’re all familiar with the social media posts concerning the freedom that people used to have in their youth to experience all kinds of things without concern for the latest government edict or pearl clutching rules enforced by an unlimited army of do-gooders.
Somewhere along the way, the hordes of bureaucratic do-gooders, the early versions of Karens, came onto the scene, making rules for virtually every aspect of our daily lives. Every one of these rules were framed with the same rationale, that it was for everyone’s safety. Thus, there were rules governing everything in our daily lives under threat of legal action for the scoffers. So, the police and of course lawyers were employed as a vast army to make sure everyone towed the societal lines. The most sinister example of this was the recent Covid hysteria, now proven to be a colossal exaggeration if not outright hoax.
While this stifling mindset became more and more the norm, the worst was yet to come. Society began to mandate that not just behaviors be regulated, but also increasingly, thought and speech. With alarming rapidity, the right to say or to even think certain things is verboten in the new polite society. The rise of social media made societal pressure all the more powerful for the weak minded. The constrictions upon the behavior of ‘free’ people became more pervasive. Humor used to be a vehicle by which a society poked fun at itself, but as we saw just recently with the Good Good golf kerfuffle, certain types of humor were just not acceptable to the guardians of decency.
To be clear, these trends are all initiated and propagated by women. Women are obsessed with making things safe, to make things fair and to yearn for some imagined egalitarian state. While on its face, it may sound desirable, in reality, it moves society towards cowering fear of doing anything outside of the approved zeitgeist. To make things more confusing, that zeitgeist is always changing. You don’t even know who to make fun of.
This entire desire for a ‘safe’ and stress-free society is in fact a recipe for societal decline. No society every progressed in technology and innovation without the stress of living in discomfort.
In the years 1968-1972, a famous experiment led by ethologist John B. Calhoun, entitled Universe 25, that placed mice in an enclosed habitat with unlimited food, water and safety from predators or disease.
Initially thriving, the colony’s population peaked at 2,200 mice (well below the enclosure’s 4,000 capacity) before social structures collapsed due to extreme overcrowding and lack of meaningful environmental challenges.
The mice developed a phenomenon Calhoun termed the behavioral sink, characterized by:
- Violence and aggression: Dominant males formed gangs, while non-dominant males withdrew completely, becoming passive and self-grooming “Beautiful Ones.”
- Reproductive collapse: Females became aggressive, abandoning or killing their young, while many mice lost the social skills necessary for mating.
- Extinction: Births ceased entirely around day 600, and the last mouse died in 1973, leaving the utopian environment empty despite still having abundant resources.
While Calhoun interpreted this as a warning about overpopulation and the loss of purpose in comfort, modern scientists note that the experiment’s lack of migration, territorial expansion, and social roles—rather than simple abundance—was the primary driver of the behavioral breakdown.
In the real world, we can see evidence of these same results in the ‘safe’ Western societies. We see the feminization of men, the collapsing birth rates among women even to the point of killing their own young. Even as the cloistered western societies pretend to be safe, in fact they are fostering weakness from within and are exposed to societies less encumbered by such artificial handicaps. It is not the natural order of humans to be tethered to artificial constructs which are clearly harmful to them. Even a dog knows to run outside if the building is on fire. But this has happened within only a couple of generations. Knowledge has been replaced by acceptable social constructs which include even the indisputable aspect of gender. Any functional society would dismiss this nonsense for what it is, but in our modern society, few dare to call out the Emperor’s nudity. The yearning for safety is in fact dooming society.
